Six doctors of chiropractic from the United States, Canada and the Netherlands were recently awarded fellowships by the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) to pursue research-related, post-doctoral degrees.
The FCER awarded the fellowship grants at the foundation's board of trustees meeting in Orlando, Fla. Each year, FCER trustees review applications from doctors worldwide to determine the grants.
"These fellowships are important to the profession and to these doctors since they encourage and nurture chiropractic and health care-related research," Charles R. Herring, DC, FCER president, said. "These doctors all are involved with much-needed research leading to published papers, contributing to chiropractic's evidence-based research needs. FCER is proud to support these outstanding scholars as they add to their educational achievements."
Fellowship Award Winners
"The primary objective of FCER's Fellowship Program is to provide doctors of chiropractic with advanced graduate education which incorporates research training," said Reed B. Phillips, DC, PhD, FCER vice president and chairperson of the FCER Research Committee. "The intent of the program is to increase the numbers of trained chiropractic researchers. The FCER Fellowship Program is one component of FCER's aggressive evidence-based research emphasis."
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
On Feb. 1, 2024, two more legislators – John R. Carter (R-Texas) and Robert “Bob” Good (R-Va.) – co-sponsored the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2023, bringing the co-sponsor total to 155, two more than the total achieved over the entire two-year congressional cycle in which identical legislation last appeared (2021-22).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
